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My 2011 Leaf is on its last legs. SOH is only 47%. After going through a lot of analysis, and finding out that it's not easy to do an upgrade to a higher range battery, I realized that the battery is worth more to me than the entire car. It still has >11kWh capacity left in it, which would make...

I have been working on V2 of the LeafCAN firmware, and it is currently in alpha testing. By attaching a rotary encoder to the expansion header of the LeafCAN PCB, a whole slew of new information screens are now selectable. The first screen is the familiar info screen from LeafCAN v1.3: The...

I don't want to get people too alarmed, because I wasn't in the car to observe what happened, but my wife had a big scare today. She was accelerating onto the freeway and then had to suddenly slow down due to stopped traffic. She hit the brake, slowed to a crawl, and when she released the...

I've never had a wheel with this many balancing weights on it. Sheesh, is my wheel or tire out of tolerance? Or is this common? My other wheels each have only 2-3 weights.

I'm building a bare bones CAN Bus interface using Olimex's Header Board for AT90CAN128, which costs $29.95 at Sparkfun. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/655 The goal is to do it with the Arduino IDE and my USBtinyISP programmer. I just got the board a few hours ago, and quickly got the...

Just found this curious device on AV's website: http://evsolutions.avinc.com/uploads/products/1_AV_HCA_061010.pdf They call it a "home charging appliance." It plugs into 120V, so it requires no installation. It has an internal battery, so it can supply 6.6KW to your car once it's charged up...

chris1howell lent me his DIY EVSE so I could debug my new firmware for it. Last night, I was playing with the pilot duty cycle. I set it to 14A and plugged it into 120V. My KillAWatt showed that it was drawing between about 13.2 and 13.9A. I ran it that way for over 1/2 hour. This afternoon...

DIYers, I just received my ITT Cannon EVC-C-30A-600S-20 J1772 Plug/Cable today from Avnet. Photos of it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincomatic/sets/72157627038881356/ It looks very high quality, but it's not nearly as visually appealing as the Yazaki plug. The button/latch is made of...

A number of parking lots in my area have courtesy spaces marked for hybrids only. Does anyone have any idea if they're OK for EV's? I've been using them for my Leaf, anyway.